Posts Tagged ‘permafrost’
Thawing Grounds: Mapping Arctic Permafrost Change
This is one of the factsheet series with key messages from Arctic PASSION. The series will be continued and new factsheets will be announced here. All factsheets can be found on Zenodo.
Read MoreUpdated Change Data Released In The Arctic Landscape Explorer (Alex)
The change data provided by the Arctic Landscape EXplorer (ALEX) has been updated. In the latest version of the tool, users can now explore landscape changes between 2005 and 2024. The previous comparison period (2003 to 2022) remains available, enabling easy comparison between the two periods using the ‘fade’ function with the ‘difference’ blend mode.…
Read MoreFirst-Ever Inclusion Of Permafrost Measurement Best Practices In The Wmo Guide To Instruments And Methods Of Observation
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released Volume II of its Guide to Instruments and Methods of Observation (WMO-No. 8): Measurement of Cryospheric Variables. For the first time, the guide features a dedicated chapter on Permafrost! Co-authored by Anna Irgang from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), this milestone represents the culmination of a four-year writing…
Read MoreExpanded Functionalities for the Arctic Landscape EXplorer (ALEX)
Erosion driven by thawing permafrost is a strong force shaping Arctic landscapes. Along some coasts, up to ten meters of land vanish into the ocean each year. For communities living along these fragile shores, the consequences can be dramatic. In 2019, the first group of residents of Niugtaq (Newtok), a settlement in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta,…
Read MoreSharing Alex And Discussing Permafrost In The Canadian North
While visiting the hamlet of Aklavik, a small Arctic community in the Mackenzie Delta, the co-lead of Arctic PASSION’s communications work Josefine Lenz shared the newly launched Arctic Landscape EXplorer (ALEX). During the visit, Josefine was working with local Gwich’in, Métis and Inuvialuit youth of Moose Kerr School in the citizen science project “UndercoverEisAgenten“. Students undertook…
Read MoreSharing Circle representation at the 12th International Conference on Permafrost (ICOP) in Whitehorse, Canada
The APECS/Arctic PASSION Sharing Circle participants have become Ambassadors who have developed their own outreach projects to share their newly gained knowledge and experiences with their communities, institutes or other chosen audiences. Sharing Circle participants Fabian Seemann (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany) and Louise Mercer (University of Northumbria, UK) presented the outcomes from the Sharing Circle…
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